Description

it says:
"encoding: indicate the character encoding to use with htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars(), and other operations. Defaults to ISO-8859-1 (latin1). May be set via setEncoding() or the encoding option to the constructor. "

it says:
"The afore-mentioned [Zend_View] classes have been reworked to use a default character encoding of UTF-8...a decision was made to default to UTF-8 for the internal encoding mechanisms used by Zend_View. "

These two documents seem to be conflicting.

Although, looking into my Zend_View object (version 1.9.8) it appears that it does default to UTF-8 - so the Documentation for Zend View is more likely to be the wrong one.